Benjamin Doyle

Benjamin Doyle

Engineering Leader · Healthcare Sector · Brisbane, Australia

Profile

Technology leader currently running engineering, architecture, analytics, and systems strategy as MediCann's first technology hire. Previously Technology Director at easykind (LinkedIn Top Startups #18), and Group Engineering Manager at Montu (Deloitte Tech Fast 50) leading multiple product and platform teams through rapid scale. Eight-year career across high-traffic travel (Expedia) and regulated healthcare.

At this level I unify engineering, data, and product under a single operating model, bring structure without slowing momentum, and stay in the code alongside the team when it counts. I own the architecture and the delivery rhythm, partner with clinical, compliance, sales, and executive stakeholders, and keep the current product shipping while modernising what sits underneath.

The last three years have been spent inside regulated healthcare workflows. Patient data, clinical decision points, and the audit, access control, and integration constraints that come with them. I make forward looking calls on AI in a regulated context, including build vs. buy vs. API, data governance, and auditability, and have a strong preference for growing the engineers I already have rather than defaulting to a replacement hire. I'm comfortable hiring juniors because I create the space and feedback loops for them to learn fast.

Hands-on across React, TypeScript, Node/NestJS, Vue, Go, native iOS, AWS, and GCP. Track record of introducing Agile rituals to teams not used to them and translating technical complexity into business language for boards, sales, and operations.

Key Skills

Team Leadership & Operating Model
  • Led multiple engineering teams (Group EM scope) and unified delivery, design, and data under a single operating model
  • Hiring, performance management, mentoring managers, and managing contractor / outsourced resource as a true extension of the core team
  • Comfortable hiring juniors and bringing them up the curve, because I create the space and feedback loop for them to learn fast
Solutions Architecture & Cloud
  • Lead architect across AWS and GCP, covering APIs, Postgres / Aurora-class data layers, event pipelines, mobile, and front end
  • Modernising legacy components while keeping the current product shipping; documented future-state architecture
  • Custom B2B / B2G integrations including direct data-warehouse connections and partner APIs
Security, Compliance & Reliability
  • Three years inside regulated healthcare working with patient data, access controls, audit trails, and incident response, on top of five years on a high-traffic travel platform
  • Tightened access control and system configuration to lift reliability and audit-readiness (HIPAA / SOC 2 posture)
  • CI/CD, automated monitoring, and on-call practices that hold up under enterprise and government scrutiny
AI in a Regulated Context
  • Evaluates build vs. buy vs. API with data governance, auditability, and liability as explicit inputs
  • Ships AI features into product workflows rather than running experiments, and develops existing engineers' AI capability rather than hiring around them
  • Daily operator of AI tooling: custom skills, MCP servers, and agent harnesses tuned for real engineering throughput
Engineering Process & Delivery
  • Introduced Agile rituals (sprint planning, retros, pairing, code review) to teams not accustomed to them, with measurable throughput gains
  • Epic-ownership model that gave engineers autonomy and clearer accountability
  • Concise status reporting and metrics that give executives genuine visibility into platform and product health
Cross-Functional & Commercial
  • Partners closely with Product, Sales, Client Services, and exec stakeholders to shape roadmap and unlock revenue
  • Translates technical complexity into business language; comfortable saying no when no is the right answer
  • Owns vendor selection, cloud spend trade-offs, and build vs. buy calls with cost and ROI as first-class inputs

Work Experience

MediCann

Alternative healthcare technology company.

Technology Director

February 2026 - Present

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia · Hybrid / Remote

NextJS React Salesforce

MediCann's first technology hire and de facto technology lead. Own architecture, delivery, vendor selection, analytics, and systems strategy end to end, partnering directly with the executive team on roadmap, build vs. buy, and commercial trade-offs.

Stood up the patient-facing product and internal admin tooling on Next.js, with a marketing surface in Framer. Designed the data and event model, operational dashboards, and reporting layer that expose drop-off, appointment flow, utilisation, and commercial bottlenecks, converting raw operational data into board-level signal.

Made the early build vs. buy vs. API calls across the stack (Salesforce, Next.js, third-party integrations, AI tooling) with cost, lock-in, and regulatory posture as explicit inputs. Set the foundations for security and access control appropriate to handling patient data in a clinical workflow.

easykind

Alternative healthcare technology company.

#18 LinkedIn Top Startups 2025

Senior Engineer → Practitioner Product Manager → Technology Director

July 2025 - January 2026

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia · Hybrid / Remote

Vue GoLang Salesforce GCP

Joined as a Senior Engineer and was promoted twice in seven months as scope kept widening. Started shipping product features across front end and backend, moved into a product role to design the first Practitioner Portal directly with clinicians, then took over technology leadership across product and platform.

The Practitioner Portal was the headline piece. Took a messy clinical workflow and turned it into a clean, usable product surface. Designed in Figma from scratch, validated directly with practitioners, then partnered on the build through APIs, code review, and the component patterns that became the foundation of the design system.

As Technology Director the title was senior but the work stayed practical: unblocking delivery, tightening access controls and system configuration, and improving the systems behind reliable practitioner and customer experiences. Worked with the Head of Data and Strategy to establish cleaner operating foundations so product decisions ran on better signal rather than assumption.

Montu

Alternative healthcare technology company.

Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2023

Senior Software Developer → Engineering Manager / Tech Lead → Group Engineering Manager

April 2023 - June 2025

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia · Remote

TypeScript React NestJS Postgres AWS

Joined as a Senior Software Developer in a rapidly scaling healthcare environment, contributing across the stack as the platform needed to support more patients, more roles, and more operational complexity. Promoted to Engineering Manager / Tech Lead within six months, then to Group Engineering Manager leading multiple teams across product and platform.

Treated management as a way to improve delivery quality, not a step away from hands-on work. Stayed close to architecture, API and database design, code review, and production support throughout. Introduced lightweight rituals like retros, sprint planning, pair programming, and code reviews, plus an epic ownership model that gave engineers more autonomy and clearer accountability.

As Group EM, worked with clinical, compliance, product, and executive stakeholders to shape roadmap decisions around complex healthcare workflows. That cross-functional work sharpened how I pressure-test ideas early and balance user needs, delivery speed, and technical integrity. Mentored managers and engineers while staying hands-on for interface-heavy features.

Expedia

Global travel technology company powering billions of trips annually.

Software Engineer I → III (Full-Stack, then iOS Native)

September 2017 - April 2023

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia · In-Office

Java Kotlin Spring Boot GraphQL TypeScript React Swift SwiftUI UIKit

Joined as a Software Engineer and progressed through three levels over five and a half years, building full-stack systems across backend and front end in a high-traffic, multi-team environment. Shipped customer-facing features at scale and got a strong foundation in turning complex platform and data problems into reliable product behaviour.

Seconded into a data engineering team partway through, working on big-data pipelines and ML-backed APIs used across the organisation. That stretch sharpened how I think about instrumentation, data models, and the interface decisions needed to make complex data actually useful downstream.

Moved into native iOS development in the final year and ramped quickly with no prior mobile experience, which is how I tend to work in unfamiliar domains: learn fast, ship, close gaps directly. Contributed to customer-facing travel experiences where polish, performance, and reliability mattered at scale, adding mobile depth to an already broad full-stack background.

More granular experience details available on request.

My Projects

MotivationMap.me - Interactive motivation mapping

Zero-to-one product: concept, interaction model, and visual design done end to end, then built and shipped.

  • Designed from first principles. No template, no hand-off, just problem to production.
  • Interactive data visualisation with shareable outputs, built on top of the application logic needed to make it genuinely useful.

ShakkaShuffle - Collaborative planning poker

Lightweight real-time collaboration tool with a distinct visual personality, shipped fast.

  • Took a rough idea to a live, working product in days, covering design, front end, and real-time back end.
  • Built to be simple enough that users get it immediately, with the full-stack decisions underneath to make it reliable.

More side projects on my website.

Education

University of Queensland

Graduate Certificate in Information Technology